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India and China scrambling for influence in Nepal as country elects new Maoist leader.

Halima is one of hundreds of refugees stranded on Niger's border after fleeing Boko Haram.

Chief Ibrahim was forced to uproot 3,000 villagers and flee Boko Haram rebels.

Ray and Lynn McKay woke to find an eight-metre sinkhole filling with water in their back garden.

Elements within Syria's opposition are just as guilty of war crimes and sectarianism as Bashar Al-Assad.

The new regiment will be deployed in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

A number of activists and lawyers are facing jail on charges of subversion.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will no longer send Dublin students to the Maynooth seminary in County Kildare.

Shekau rumoured to have been killed or replaced after failing to appear in group's videos.

China says Japan's defence white paper is 'full of malice' towards the Chinese military.

There are thought to be fewer that 70 of the big cats left in the wild.

More than 200 Indians were on board the EK521, as well as 24 UK citizens.

Lack of jobs and stagnant economy are issues for party in power since end of apartheid in 1994.

Burundi government says French-led UN resolution authorising the force was made without its consent.

Dr Jan Halper-Hayes said Trump shows worrying personality traits and is out of control.

Around 80 rescuers have been dispatched to the spot but bad weather is expected to hamper rescue operations.

Payments part of amnesty granted to militants in 2009 on condition they stop carrying out attacks.

Well-known as the father of femtochemistry, he won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions.

Among the four US nationals was Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian.

The woman gave birth to a baby girl on 1 August.

South Korea reiterates the need for Thaad deployment after Pyongyang's latest acts.

Media jabs at Trump with Zoolander clip on Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good

General Nestor Revero was indicted by the US for alerting drug mafias over raids by taking payments from them.

The Turkish president specifically targeted Germany after a court did not allow him to speak to supporters in Cologne.

Trump suggested that Gretchen Carlson, who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, should have quit her job.

Malaysia: Monkeys attack postman and steal letters being delivered at army camp in Malacca

North Korea previously fired three ballistic missiles into the sea two weeks ago.

Former Democrat Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned prior to the 2016 national convention.

'Should the American people choose Trump, there will be consequences,' the French president warned.